I think it's important to try to be present with whatever it is you're doing. And if you can't be present, take a break.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to enter all the relationship data in a computer and have it spit out a definitive answer. You can't quantify love, and if you try, you wind up focusing on misleading factors.

But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.

What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy

Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.

After all, I think, isn't it always about a boy?